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End of the will of Aurelius Panchab son of Panouphis TM 36533Aphrodites kome (?) (Antaiopolites)VIth Century AD

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The closing portion of the will of Aurelius Panchab son of Panouphis, who names his daughters as heirs and orders the priest and monks of a monastery to enforce payment of his bequeathed offering of grain and wine. It ends with the testator's subscription and the signatures of witnesses. It belongs to the 6th-century archive of Dioskoros, probably from Aphrodito.

In English machine translation

[recto] [...] [...] of my affairs [...] to have been decided. I also wish this: that if it should happen through negligence that my heirs, being daughters, or their heirs, do not willingly pay the offering previously appointed by me to the holy monastery, of grain and of wine [...] harvested, I order the most pious priest of the same monastery and the most pious monks in it to demand these things from them, willing or unwilling, at all times, so that the matters of the holy offering may proceed blamelessly for ever for the dead to look forward to. This is the will itself: let all envy and evil fraud be absent; I wish it to prevail and be valid everywhere; this will I dictated and had it written and signed by the witnesses signing below, seven in number, whom I summoned as witnesses, and I read out to them the force of the will and persuaded them to sign according to the laws. All the others shall be disinherited, because it has thus rightly and justly been decided by me. The will shall be valid and secure, written in two identical copies, with my signature, and having been asked about all these things I assented. I, Aurelius Panchab son of Panouphis, the aforesaid, made this will, being satisfied with all that is written in it, and I signed with my own hand. I, Psenthaesis son of Ollos, priest, witness the will, having heard it from the testator. I, Aurelius Victor son of Syros, witness the will, having heard it from the testator. I, Aurelius Abraamios [...], witness the will, having heard it from the testator. Aurelius K[...] [verso] [...]

The prosphora is a pious offering for the commemoration of the dead. The verso carries a Coptic inventory of movables and furniture.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fin du testament). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

End of a will

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE40474 · VIth Century AD · Aphrodites kome (?) (Antaiopolites)

The end of the will of Aurelius Pankab, son of Panouphis. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.

Inventory

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE40474 · VIth Century AD · Aphrodites kome (?) (Antaiopolites)

On the verso an inventory of movable property and furniture, in coptic. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.

p.cair.masp.3.67324

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Aphrodites Kome? (Antaiopolites)

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